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Del Rey
March 2019
On Sale: March 5, 2019
560 pages
ISBN: 1984817205
EAN: 9781984817204
Kindle: B07DMZCKPM
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Fantasy
In a thrilling feminist fantasy epic, a revolutionary
spell gives women the ability to control their own
fertility—with consequences that rock their patriarchal
society to its core.
When a nobleman's first
duty is to produce a male heir, women have always been
treated like possessions and bargaining chips. But now, as
the aftereffects of this world-altering spell ripple out,
women at last have a bargaining chip of their own. Alys is
the widowed mother of two teenage children, and the
disinherited daughter of a king. Her existence has been
carefully proscribed, but now she discovers a fierce talent
not only for politics, but also for magic. Meanwhile, in a
neighboring kingdom, young Ellin finds herself unexpectedly
on the throne after the sudden death of everyone who stood
before her in the line of succession. Conventional wisdom
holds that she will marry quickly, then surrender the throne
to her new husband…only Ellin has other ideas. The tensions
tearing at both kingdoms become abruptly worse when a
caravan of exiled women and their escort of disgraced
soldiers stumble upon a new source of magic in what was once
uninhabitable desert. This new and revolutionary magic—which
only women can wield—threatens to tear down what is left of
the patriarchy. And the men who currently hold power would
do anything to destroy it.
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